Highway to Hell - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Art of Middle-earth Ted Nasmith Is the Bob Ross of Middle-earth

Art of Middle-earth Ted Nasmith Is the Bob Ross of Middle-earth




If you’ve ever picked up an illustrated book written by J.R.R. Tolkien, or spent time clicking around on the internet in fantasy circles, or if you’d seen the posters on my dorm room wall years ago—or, heck, scrolled through any of the posts of The Silmarillion Primer—basically, if you’ve lived on Planet Earth over the last few decades, then you’ve surely chanced across the scenic, brilliant, and exceedingly prismatic illustrations of Ted Nasmith. I mean…if chance you call it.

Enjoy the journey into a place that still calls all our names. 

Alan Watts - What if when we die we wake up?

Elbow - Scattered Black and Whites

I just had to share this song because of this comment - it made me cry and happy

I listen to this song when I wish I could ring my mum to tell her 

Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson - There Must Be More to Life Than Th...

A mhuirnin o - Clannad - Celtic music

Doesn't this remind one of Luthien
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lúthien

How that story is the greatest love story ever.

Edith and J.R.R. Tolkien lie in Wolvercote Cemetery (North Oxford). Their gravestone shows the association of Lúthien with Edith, and Tolkien himself with Beren. The stone reads:

And this -
Edith Mary Tolkien
Lúthien
1889–1971
John Ronald
Reuel Tolkien
Beren
1892–1973 

Johann Sebastian Bach ; Toccata & Fugue in Dm, by Sinfonity

Naturally 7 - Fix You (Official Music Video-Extended Version) (Coldplay ...

You will want to watch this over and over. It's so wonderful. Share this everywhere.

Queen - Somebody to Love [High Definition]

The Biggest Healthcare Mistakes and Misdirections

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/01/bill-sardi/the-biggest-healthcare-mistakes-misdirections/

Mary Oliver - Listening to the world - The Onbeing Project

Mary Oliver

I have loved Mary Oliver's writing since the moment I was exposed to her. Every single thing she has written has grabbed my heart and never let it go.

Imagine that I now discovered that we have lost her in death on January 17, 2019. Oh but my heart breaks but her wonderful writing will always be a part of my soul and I hope you too.

https://onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world-jan2019/?utm_source=On+Being+Newsletter&utm_campaign=401d8e2216-20190119_ThePause&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1c66543c2f-401d8e2216-69920297&mc_cid=401d8e2216&mc_eid=39ccef03d7

Jane Siberry & KD Lang - Calling All Angels

Calling All Angels

Santa Maria, Santa Teresa, Santa Anna, Santa Susannah
Santa Cecilia, Santa Copelia, Santa Domenica, Mary Angelica
Frater Achad, Frater Pietro, Julianus, Petronilla
Santa, Santos, Miroslaw, Vladimir
and all the rest

Oh, a man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries
and high above you can hear
the church bells start to ring
and as the heaviness, oh the heaviness, the body settles in
somewhere you can hear a mother sing

then it's one foot then the other
as you step out onto the road of hopestep out on the road
how much weight? how much?
then it's how long? and how far?
and how many times oh, before it's too late?

calling all angels calling all angels
walk me through this one
don't leave me alone
calling all angels calling all angels
we're tryin' and we're hopin'
but we're not sure how...

ah, and every day you gaze upon the sunset
with such love and intensitywhy it's ah, it's almost as
if you could only crack the code
then you'd finally understand what this all means

ah, but if you could...do you think you would
trade in all, all the pain and suffering?
ah, but then you'd miss
the beauty of the light upon this earth
and the sweetness of the leaving

calling all angels calling all angelswalk me through this one
don't leave me alone
calling all angels calling all angels
we're tryin' and we're hopin'
but we're not sure...

calling all angels calling all angels
walk me through this one
don't leave me alonecalling all angels calling all angels
we're tryin' we're hopin'
we're hurtin' we're lovin'
we're cryin' we're callin'
cause we're not sure how this goes

Neil Kramer

https://www.facebook.com/pg/beingneilkramer/posts/?ref=notif

Neil Kramer

I have never seen so many momentous shifts in international affairs, politics, and society as are happening now. As usual, 99% of it is occurring off the public radar. So people who believe they are watching world events unfold because they follow mainstream news sources and popular culture (same thing) can have NO IDEA AT ALL what is happening. None. This is nothing new. What is new is that the tectonic shifts that are shattering long-held worldwide deceptions, are at last being compelled by the good guys. The good guys. Yep. You read that right. The emerging realities will be very hard for most people to accept. Such truthfulness has not been seen in this world for a very long time. Nevertheless, everything necessary to educate an individual in the reality of our world, is out there to be discerned and studied, should they so wish it. Hard work, but eminently doable. Equally available to everyone. Or, people can continue to daydream and follow the herd. Whichever, a profound and irreversible world-shift is underway right now. Though many details are already known to those who carefully study the intertwined forces of spiritual and parapolitical warfare, the facts are surfacing to wider audiences. Watch. Truth is coming. The fragile will go mental. The foolish will delude themselves even harder. The wise will simply be glad. And if you ever worry about the eventual outcome… refer to attached pic.

Mark Knopfler - Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero (A Night In London) ...

Theme from the wonderful movie "Local Hero". If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and enjoy it. I have watched this movie and it never grows old. It awakens all inside of you that is amazing and beautiful and wild. All that the Irish know what matters. We were not made to be these mechanical men and women we were made to wonder and be amazed!

100 SF/F Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year

100 SF/F Books You Should Consider Reading in the New Year

James Davis Nicoll

Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:00am 101 comments 24 Favorites [+] 

https://www.tor.com/2018/12/27/100-sf-f-books-you-should-consider-reading-in-the-new-year/

Neil Diamond Talks About "Holly Holy" Then Plays It (Live 1971)

Enya - "Wild Child" Lyrics on screen

Jim Carrey - Energy of Life | Spiritual Message

More to dying than meets the eye: Martha Atkins at TEDxSanAntonio 2013

Life Lessons From 100-Year-Olds

Bon Iver - Holocene (Official Music Video)

A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World

A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World


A labor of love 8 years in the making, featuring contributions by Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Oliver, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth Gilbert, Shonda Rhimes, Richard Branson, Marina Abramović, Judy Blume, and other remarkable humans living inspired and inspiring lives.

By Maria Popova

One of the great cruelties and great glories of creative work is the wild discrepancy of timelines between vision and execution. When we dream up a project, we invariably underestimate the amount of time and effort required to make it a reality. Rather than a cognitive bug, perhaps this is the supreme coping mechanism of the creative mind — if we could see clearly the toil ahead at the outset of any creative endeavor, we might be too dispirited to begin, too reluctant to gamble between the heroic and the foolish, too paralyzed to walk the long and tenuous tightrope of hope and fear by which any worthwhile destination is reached.

If eight years ago, someone had told me that A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (public library) would take eight years, I would have laughed, then cried, then promptly let go of the dream. And yet here it is, all these unfathomable years later, a reality — a collection of original letters to the children of today and tomorrow about why we read and what books do for the human spirit, composed by 121 of the most interesting and inspiring humans in our world: Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Oliver, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth Gilbert, Shonda Rhimes, Alain de Botton, James Gleick, Anne Lamott, Diane Ackerman, Judy Blume, Eve Ensler, David Byrne, Sylvia Earle, Richard Branson, Daniel Handler, Marina Abramović, Regina Spektor, Elizabeth Alexander, Adam Gopnik, Debbie Millman, Dani Shapiro, Tim Ferriss, Ann Patchett, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor, Italy’s first woman in space, and many more immensely accomplished and largehearted artists, writers, scientists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and adventurers whose character has been shaped by a life of reading.

If you remember being a child and finding the great and endless beauty of books read this joyful story and return to that escape filled with wonder.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/20/a-velocity-of-being-letters-to-a-young-reader/?mc_cid=5b19f859ff&mc_eid=e92d22ac49

A Brave and Startling Truth: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Maya Angelou’s Stunning Humanist Poem That Flew to Space, Inspired by Carl Sagan

A Brave and Startling Truth: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Maya Angelou’s Stunning Humanist Poem That Flew to Space, Inspired by Carl Sagan


“Out of such chaos, of such contradiction / We learn that we are neither devils nor divines…”

By Maria Popova

The second annual Universe in Verse — a celebration of science through poetry, and a voice of resistance against the assault on nature — opened with the poem “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928–May 28, 2014), which flew to space on the Orion spacecraft. I chose this poem to set the tone for the show in part because it is absolutely stunning and acutely relevant to our cultural moment, and in part because the first time I read it, it sparked in me a sudden insight into the often invisible ways in which science and poetry influence and inspire one another — into how the golden threads of thought and feeling stretch and cross-hatch across disciplines to weave what we call culture.